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   "Forty-two, Master Legolas!" [Gimli the dwarf] cried. "Alas! My axe is   
   notched: the forty-second had an iron collar on his neck."   
      
   J. R. R. Tolkien, _ The Two Towers _ (1954)   
      
   We had huge enjoyment writing a ponderous homily in which a vicar who   
   begins by reading out the text about Lot's wife being turned into a pillar   
   of salt suddenly _realizes_ what an extraordinary thing this was to happen,   
   and then speculates about God's choice of condiment. When Graham performed   
   it, it worked well, especially the punchline, delivered after a very long   
   and puzzled pause--"Hymn 42!" Graham later worked with the author of _ The   
   Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy _, Douglas Adams: Did our sermon inspire   
   him when he pondered the answer to life, the universe and everything?   
      
   John Cleese, _ So Anyway _ (2014)   
      
   --   
   Fifty-six! dammit! fifty-six!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)